The History of the Candle Snuffer
Posted by Hampshire Pewter on 10/31/2014 to
Did you know that the bell-shaped cone at the end of a long
handle that you use to put out your candles isn’t really a snuffer?
Colloquially, we refer to anything that puts out candles now as a snuffer, but
in fact the tool we know as a snuffer is actually an “extinguisher” or candle “douter.”